{"id":17056,"date":"2025-07-25T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17056"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T17:57:42","slug":"and-theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17056","title":{"rendered":"And they\u2019re off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/07\/25\/and-theyre-off\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/07\/25\/and-theyre-off\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans can see daylight from here! Election season began Thursday 07-24-25 when Tony Evers announced he would not seek a third four-year term. The fella always struck us as a mild-mannered Mr. Peepers (all our cultural references are at least 30 years old). A walking snooze button but no lightning rod, either.\u00a0 So the field [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/07\/25\/and-theyre-off\/ Republicans can see daylight from here! Election season began&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17057,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17056\/revisions\/17057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}